A social revolution, in contrast, was a 'combination of thoroughgoing structural transformation and massive class upheavals'.

Through emigration, trade, tourism and foreign investment, individuals and firms changed their patterns of production and consumption, bringing about a structural transformation.

As a result, the report calls for significant changes to current development practices (especially economic expansion, social programs, democratic processes and structural transformation).

The journal publishes articles on the economics of structural transformation, institutional development and growth.

This structural transformation occurs at pressures at which theory predicts the icosahedra will dissociate.